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new blog entry to remind me of exaile fiddling
author Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de>
date Wed, 25 Feb 2015 05:13:17 +0100
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1 Title: exaile vs. gstreamer
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2 Date: 2015-02-25
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3 Lang: en
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5 My favourite music player app on Linux is [Exaile](http://www.exaile.org/). On [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org) it's available straight from portage but getting playback working for different audio formats its not quite straightforward.
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7 Exaile depends on [gstreamer](http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/) - albeit not on the latest version but on the 0.10 version line. Since Gentoo supports slotted gstreamer installs you have to remember to add the `:0.10` slot definition when fiddling with the gstreamer ebuilds. In order to change the gstreamer plugins that are installed, take a look on the use flags of `media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta:0.10`:
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9 [ebuild R ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r9:0.10 USE="X a52 aac alsa cdda dts dvd flac http* mp3 mpeg ogg pulseaudio vorbis x264 xv xvid -dv -dvb -ffmpeg -jack -lame -libass -libvisual -mms -musepack -opus -oss -taglib -theora -v4l -vcd -vpx -wavpack" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 0 KiB
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11 Adding/removing use flags and recompiling should do the trick.
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